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English
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Now that I've Kissed the Ground You Walk On : A Look at Gender in Creative Date Invitations
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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114-122
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Once I explained to a new acquaintance that as a folklorist I was researching creative date invitations— the unusual ways that young women and men ask each other out on dates, primarily dates to school dances. In response she told me about a creative date invitation that had been described to her. One of her friends, the mother of a high school age boy, received a call from a girl who wanted to ask her son to a preference dance. The girl asked permission to put the invitation in the boy’s bedroom. The mother said 'yes,' and soon the young woman arrived, scattered a bag of Hershey Kisses on the floor, and strategically placed a poster proclaiming, 'Now that I’ve kissed the ground you walk on, will you go to Preference with me?'...While creative invitations are bound by traditional practices, it is through the individualization of the traditions that young people are able to express themselves outside of teenage stereotypes. [From the text]